GSEC 2011 Teams

Black Bengal Meats Company: A just not for profit social business targeted towards providing nutrition and employment at the Base of the Pyramid in Bangladesh. Black Bengal Meats Company will use rural poor to generate low cost goat meat to sell to the urban poor. University of Dhaka, Bangladesh

Hamara – Free Sanitation Facilities for Rural India: Hamara’s goal is to improve community health and fostering economic growth in rural India by providing free hygienic sanitation while making available the same product offerings and purchasing opportunity as in cities to rural populations. Revenue generation will be mainly through sale of advertising space and advertiser products. University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, U.S.

LIFT Investments: Improves the lives of the working poor and provides investment capital to high-potential businesses in Africa. Profits+ aims to provide working poor with part-time education programs that create access to higher paying jobs. The programs are financed by capital invested in the businesses that employ the low-paid workers; profits generated from this investment fund the programs. Columbia University, New York, U.SWatch Final Presentation video

Low-Cost Electronic Health Records Can Improve Prenatal Care in Peru: EHR Peru will implement low-cost electronic health records in regional clinics serving impoverished women and with time among a larger population of pregnant women. Use of electronic records is expected to significantly improve accuracy and quality of maternal health care by reducing antenatal morbidity and improving clinic efficiency. Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru & University of Washington, Seattle, WA, U.S.

NextDrop: Leverages the recent proliferation of mobile phones in India to provide households with accurate and timely information about water delivery that reduces the time waiting for water and will enable better rationing of stored water supplies. NextDrop sources this information from the water consumers by providing incentives in the form of micropayments. University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, California, U.SWatch Final Presentation video.

Omnihaler – The Inhaler to the Poor: Asthma is a severe global problem with very high morbidity and mortality rate, medication of which is very costly to avail for the poor. To ensure affordable asthma medication among the poor segment, Omnihaler Inc. introduces an inexpensive inhaler in Bangladesh, prepared from dhatura, a locally abundant phytomedicinal plant. University of Dhaka, Bangladesh

One4OneIT: E-power promises to develop skills of unemployed youths and create employment for them through online outsourcing jobs and work platforms. University of Dhaka, Bangladesh

Online PayStation: To extend the benefit of online bargain shopping to the world’s poor by accepting cash. Our vision is to increase the accessibility and purchasing power of low income communities worldwide by establishing a network of pay stations that will provide savings on and online access to items such as school books, food, medicines, and water. University of Washington, Seattle, WA, U.S.

POCiT: is a nonprofit business with the mission of creating accessible medical technologies for use at the point of care in developing nations. We envision the development of accurate, affordable, user-friendly, and mobile medical solutions that transform the landscape of point of- care diagnostics by providing the potential to reach millions of patients. University of Washington, Seattle, WA, U.S.Watch Final Round Presentation video

Sanergy: Sanergy produces electricity and fertilizer through providing safe, affordable sanitation across the slums of Kenya. In these areas with no infrastructure and limited resources, we are pioneering a model providing sustainable sanitation services by combining low-cost technology developed at MIT with an innovative deployment strategy. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, U.SWatch Final Round Presentation video

Tilapiana: To create, manage, and scale sustainable micro fish farming ecosystems in the developing world to close nutritional gaps and leverage local production and distribution. Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, U.S.

Wello – A Simple Design Can Change the World: Wello aims to improve global access to water and reduce the physical and time burdens of water collection by manufacturing and distributing a water transportation tool, the WaterWheel. Our innovative Business in a Barrel model enables our customers to improve their economic status while improving the health of their communities. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, U.S.Watch Final Round Presentation video

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